Just a quick survey to see whether the problems I am facing are machine dependent or not. I have not been able to get NTFS to work on both my home (Win2K) and work (WinXP) machine. I tried both FreeDOS + NTFSDOS, and INSERT + Captive. What is your experience?

Haven't gotten NTFS r/w to work yet. I have tried both the FreeDOS and the Insert methods.

I found an interesting post at http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard ... 27880.html which states that he was able to get captive working by adding the user captive to the group captive. My problem is that I was expecting usermod to be available, but it does not appear to be. How else can I modify this user account?

Thanks for the post. Victor has also mentioned he hadtrouble and after reading the link I think I may see the problem:

The post you mention talks about adding the user insert tothe group captive. Try to use captive as root and see ifyou have different results. If you are running Captive fromthe FluxBox menu it should already run as root, but if you'redoing it from the command line, make sure you're in a root shell.

If it still doesn't work, please drop to a root shell and type"fdisk -l" (that's a lowercase L) and post the results; we'llthen step through and see what's going wrong. If you know bashyou can also read through /usr/sbin/startcaptive and issue thecommands manually and see what fails.

The reason we didn't add user "insert" to the group "captive"is that, normally, only root can mount filesystems. It soundslike the captive author may have made a mod such that, in additionto root, anyone whose part of the captive group can mount too.

> I found an interesting post at > http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard ... 27880.html> which states that he was able to get captive working by > adding the user captive to the group captive. My problem is > that I was expecting usermod to be available, but it does not > appear to be. How else can I modify this user account?

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